Biden’s presidency has done nothing to abate racial paranoia. On the contrary, it’s getting more feverish
By Tom Slater
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Beauty speaks with such great immediacy because it touches something deep within us
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Many of capitalism’s most vocal critics are now found on the American right
By Samuel Gregg
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The American and Russian presidents have been taking potshots at each other for at least a decade
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Ferrante was the Flaubert of the Pantsuit Nation, a harbinger of Hillary’s page-turning presidency
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Attention-shy couples can elope guilt-free, while bridezillas get to be bossier than ever
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‘We’re dying slowly’
By Paul Wood
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I’m leaving the big show, canceling my print subscriptions, packing up my DC apartment and chucking away all those unread back issues of the Atlantic
By Josh Glancy
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A government that would never dream of allowing free elections in its own country mocks America’s democratic process
By Ian Williams
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Paris is a target-rich environment for excitable racial separatists and merchants of grievance
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The party will decline because it has a demographic problem
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Books + Arts
Castellano and Castaldo descended upon Narrowsburg with a gust of wind, declaring that they would open an acting school, start a film festival and make it ‘the Sundance of the East’
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For those of us who have followed Korean film for many years, the triumph of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden or the living-dead series Kingdom on Netflix came as no surprise
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For Cousteau, scientific investigation, combined with the potential for good image-making, presented an unavoidable hazard to sea life
By James Panero
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The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari reviewed
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Steven Wilson is going about becoming a pop musician entirely the wrong way
By Michael Hann
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A new history of east and west, best and worst
By William Cook
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Philip Guston’s work shows the hopelessness, the struggle of making art
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As Amanda Knox walks listeners through the day of her arrest, it’s apparent she is still upset
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In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry
By Luke Haines
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s ‘Girl Stunt Reporters’ by Kim Todd reviewed
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Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind by Jessica Kilburn reviewed
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The Art of Losing and Tomorrow They Won’t Dare Murder Us reviewed
By Boyd Tonkin
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Life
In his own mind, every celebrity fancies himself or herself as a Philosopher King- or Queen-in-Waiting
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If you have lived in Bath since the beginning of the pandemic you might not have noticed the changes so viscerally
By Ben Sixsmith
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A circuit that was born in Batavia in 1939 died in Manhattan’s oppressive Time-Life Building
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Charles de Gaulle was a resident during World War Two
By Mark Mason
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But how is it pronounced?
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Time and again in France I have found that the greater the offense the more easily one is forgiven
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The closer to the voters the people involved in making the laws, the better the chance of their general acceptance
By Peter Jones
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Unlike elsewhere, Kenya’s cities throng with life: crowded markets, gridlocked traffic, busy bars and shops
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Poor young Americans are now expected to uphold woke standards on their way to becoming total simpletons
By Taki
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Food and Drink
It’s amazing, but when you chew something 60 times, a piece of broccoli starts to taste sumptuous, complex, irresistible
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As a vegetarian on the right, I would argue that there is nothing ‘traditional’ about modern livestock production
By Ben Sixsmith
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